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Bill Summary
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Jul 31, 2015 4:07 p.m.

The Surface Transportation and Veterans Health Care Choice Improvement Act (H.R. 3236) was passed in both both chambers by votes of 385–34 in the House and 91–4 in the Senate. It would authorize funds for federal-aid highway and public transportation programs and make funds available from the Veterans Choice Fund to pay for veteran’s health care provided by sources other than the Department of Veterans Affairs. The bill will be sent to the President. For more ...

Bill Summary
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Jul 31, 2015 4:06 p.m.

The VA Accountability Act (H.R. 1994), which would make it easier for the Department of Veterans Affairs to demote or fire employees based on poor performance and offer increased protection for whistleblowers, was passed in the House by a vote of 256–170. All but one of the votes against the bill came from Democrats. The White House issued a policy statement in strong opposition on the grounds that the bill would allow a VA employee to be removed ...

About the resolution

Summary (CRS)

1/26/2011--Passed Senate without amendment.Condemns in the strongest possible terms the horrific attack that occurred at the "Congress on your Corner" event hosted by Representative Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, Arizona, on ...
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Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives with respect to the tragic shooting ...

Agreed To (Simple Resolution)
Jan 12, 2011

What is a resolution?

The “S.Res.” in “S.Res. 14” means this is a Senate simple resolution in the United States Congress. A simple resolution is used for matters that affect just one chamber of Congress, often to change the rules of the chamber to set the manner of debate for a related bill. It must be agreed to in the chamber in which it was introduced. It is not voted on in the other chamber and does not have the force of law.

Civic Impulse. (2015). S.Res. 14 — 112th Congress: A resolution honoring the victims and heroes of the shooting on January 8, 2011 in .... Retrieved from https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/sres14

“S.Res. 14 — 112th Congress: A resolution honoring the victims and heroes of the shooting on January 8, 2011 in ....” www.GovTrack.us. 2011. August 2, 2015 <https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/112/sres14>